Troubled Water - India is heading for a water crisis
The New Internationalist, April 2006
© The New Internationalist,
Oxford, U.K. 2006
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Around 3,000 years ago the wise men who compiled the Upanishads,
the most sophisticated spiritual textbook of the Hindus, praised
India’s rivers and lakes: ‘These waters are the source of everything,
of what is visible and invisible. These waters are the image of All.’
Today, with accelerating industrialization and rapid population growth,
India seems poised to destroy its holy rivers. The riverlink project
could just be the fatal blow.
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See also:
India's Programme on Interlinking Rivers
Narmada: India's Soul in Danger
Water Harvesting against Droughts
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